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SEPTENNIAL

Definitions: SEPTENNIAL

SEPTENNIAL

Adjective

1. Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.

2. Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SEPTENNIAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Etymology: Septennial \Sep*ten"ni*al\, adjective. [Latin expression septennium period of seven years; septem seven annus year. See Seven, and Annual.]. (Websters 1913)


Usage Frequency: SEPTENNIAL

"SEPTENNIAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SEPTENNIAL" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SEPTENNIAL

Language Translations for "SEPTENNIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtatëvjeçar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سبعي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

седемгодишен (septenary). (various references)

   

Czech

  

sedmiletý. (various references)

   

French

  

septennal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επταετήσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hétéves. (various references)

   

Italian

  

settennale. (various references)

   

Manx

  

shiaght-vleinoil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptennialsay

   

Portuguese

  

septenal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

семилетний. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sedmogodišnji. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yedi yılda bir olan, yedi yıl süren. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

семирічний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bảy năm một lần. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SEPTENNIAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "SEPTENNIAL": septennially. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SEPTENNIAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sapiential. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SEPTENNIAL"

Words rhyming with "SEPTENNIAL" (pronounced 'Sep*ten"ni*al'): Arachnidial, Arachnoidal, Arachnological, Brachial, Brachyceral, Bracteal, Branchial, Branchiostegal, Floral, Fluidal, Mutual, Occidental, Opal, Oral, Pactional, Paginal, Paleontographical, Paleontological, Palinodial, Pallial, Palpebral, Palsical, Paludal, Paludinal, Palustral, Panical, Pansophical, Pantological, Papal, Paraboloidal, Parachordal, Paradisal, Paradisical, paradoxal, Paradoxical, Paragraphistical, Paralogical, Paralytical, Paranymphal, Paraphernal, Parasital, Paraxial, parenchymal, Parental, Parfocal, Parishional, Parliamental, Paroccipital, Parochial, Parosteal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SEPTENNIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: antisleep, penalties, tapelines.

-2 letters: enplanes, panelist, pantiles, penalise, penlites, pentanes, petaline, plainest, plenties, sentinel, sepaline, tapeline.

-3 letters: alpines, aplites, elapine, elastin, enplane, entails, epistle, etesian, inanest, intense, lateens, leanest, lenient, lineate, linnets, lisente, nailset, neatens, paliest, panties, pantile, patines, pelites, penates, penlite, pennate, pennies, pensile, pentane, pileate, pineals, pinenes, pinnate, pintles, plaints, planets.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-n-n-p-s-t"
 

+2 letters: exponentials, pentlandites, pliantnesses, septennially.

 

+3 letters: antipersonnel, interpersonal, painterliness, phenomenalist, phentolamines, plaintiveness, septentrional.

 

+4 letters: antepenultimas, convertiplanes, nonspeculative, phenomenalists, presentational, presentimental.

 

+5 letters: encephalitogens, exceptionalness, implementations, interpellations, interpersonally, painterlinesses, phenomenalistic, plainclothesmen, plaintivenesses, supplementation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SEPTENNIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 50 54 45 4E 4E 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01000101 01001110 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#80 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#78 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0050 0054 0045 004E 004E 0049 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53395054394848433546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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